Flock & ALPR Cameras in Centralia, Washington
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Centralia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Centralia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Centralia itself.
The rest sit in Chehalis (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Centralia Police Department (5). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Centralia in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Centralia
The readers mapped around Centralia break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Centralia Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West 1st Street — 2 readers
- South Tower Avenue — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
- Mellen Street — 1 reader
- North Pearl Street — 1 reader
- South Gold Street — 1 reader
- Kresky Avenue — 1 reader
- Cooks Hill Road — 1 reader
- South Pearl Street — 1 reader
- Marion Street — 1 reader
- East Summa Street — 1 reader
- West Reynolds Avenue — 1 reader
Centralia WA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Centralia WA PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 95 plate-database searches, has captured 146,824 vehicle records. Its network connects to 91 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aberdeen WA PD, Adams County WA SO, Airway Heights WA PD, Arlington WA PD, Auburn WA PD, Benton County WA SO, Brewster WA PD, Chehalis Tribe Law Enforcement WA.
Centralia in the Lewis County picture
Lewis County has 40 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #573 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 83,925 residents and 4,860 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Centralia Police Department (5).
What’s watching Centralia
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Centralia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Centralia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Centralia
- U . S . Border Patrol acquired back - door access to Flock camera data from Centralia , Chehalis police , study finds
- On the Heels of Success in Centralia, Flock Cameras Coming to Chehalis
What you can do in Centralia
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Centralia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).